A group of U.S. intelligence veterans chastises the mainstream U.S. media for virtually ignoring a British newspaper’s account of the gripping inside story on how the CIA tried to block the U.S. Senate’s torture investigation.…
The late William Colby, CIA director from 1973 to 1976, has been quoted as saying: “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Whether or not Colby was quoted correctly, the experience of the past several decades suggests it is largely true. Better sourced is a quote from William Casey, CIA director from 1981 to 1987: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”…
Does American democracy deserve any less than an intense investigation of the CIA’s obstruction of the democratic process in the 2000s?What "democracy" would that be?
Consortium News
US Media Ignores CIA Cover-up on Torture
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
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